Happy Crappy!

Ok everyone!

We never got around to our big fun game at the reunion - Happy Crappy! Here are the ground rules...

1) Name a happy thing that has happened to you in the past year (or month or week), and a crappy thing that has happened in the past year (or month or week)

2) Start with the crappy...end with the happy.

3) You can have as many happies as you want, but only one crappy...no whiners, people!

Ready? Leave you happy / crappy as a comment to this post!

Here's where WendyLee caves to public pressure

Also, here's some rejected T-shirt designs:

FRONT pocket:
Back:

If anybody wants a shirt done and didn't get one, just send me a shirt you like and tell me what you want on it.

I have a good video of Linda playing the drums....

But since I am a VERY NICE NIECE and Linda asked me nicely to not post it, I'm posting Gen playing the drums instead. She IS the cutest thing ever! Here's a few other pics I got!

McDaris Update

Hi Everyone!

So obviously I haven't been checking the blog as often as I should! As for us, we have been busy, busy, busy! In April I went to New York City with my mom, Aunt Mary and cousins Michelle & Tonya. When they flew out, I stayed, Parrish flew in, and we spent a couple of days in Brooklyn with some friends from college that live there. It was all great fun! After that, I had the Walk for work, which went really well. We were able to raise over $65,000, which felt great...it was a lot of fun and a lot of work! I have also officially finished my MBA, and am just waiting on OSU to send my degree to me. Parrish is also getting ready to finish his degree...only 5 more hours and he'll have his M.A. in Ministry, Ethics & Culture.

And lastly...we have lived in Tulsa now for 4 years and moved here for the purpose of getting our graduate degrees. Since we are almost finished with that process, we are taking applications for our new city. Right now the top 2 contendors are New York (yes, we are fully aware that the cost-of-living there is quite high) and Denver. If you have suggestions, please let us know! One requirement...it has to be bigger than Tulsa.

Love you all!
Meredith & Parrish

p.s. Welcome Shelby!!!

Here are some pics:

New York Trip -


The Walk -

Gen waters the grass

Some of you may not know this, but Robert really loves to water the grass. He has a tractor sprinkler, and each night he sets it on its course. If time permits, he and Genny sit on lawn chairs and watch it. So last night, Gen learned to use the hose to water Mom and Dad and Daisy (and some plants too). You can also hear the panhandle wind blowing on the video!

To Molly: To upload video, just make sure your digital video file is on the computer somewhere, or plugged in the USB drive or whatever. On the toolbar, you can add a video by clicking the icon to the right of the "add photo" icon. Then the video uploads just like a picture, only it takes a lot longer (give it about a minute for every second or two of video, usually).

Rowland Update

We had a great weekend. Carson got us tickets to the Colonial plus an added bonus of entry to the Merrill Lynch hospitality room. Thanks again, Carson! We enjoyed the view above the 18th hole where we got to see the exciting win at the end of the tournament. We loved it!

This picture is of Jeff, Glenda, and Kent (friends from Amarillo) and our new curbing around the tree. Thanks for the challenge, Wendy Lee, to all post updates. Your turn Wendy Anderson!

Thirty pounds later...

This is the closest thing I have to a profile picture, one from my baby shower back in April. I really haven't gained much more weight since then, just a few pounds from all the cake and cookies I've been craving!

Life around here has been all about preparing for baby. Getting a new washer/dryer, installing the car seat, packing bags, freezing some dinners, and getting a new tv have been our excitement lately. Yeah, yeah...the new tv has nothing to do with baby on the way. It's just taken us a year to finally get one, so it was nice to mark that off our "to do" list. And, for those of you that haven't ever installed a car seat, try to avoid this task at all costs! My mechanical engineer husband threw the instruction manual at me after about 30 minutes saying he gave up. It's harder than it looks! We keep asking ourselves how we ever made it past childhood without car seats to keep us locked in place. Gone are the days of playing "Barbie" in the floorboards!

Wendy Poling has inspired me to start our on little Pfaff blog to keep up with our crazy life. Check it out at www.pfafftimes.blogspot.com. There is only one little post right now. We can't wait to announce her name to the world. All the guessing has been lots of fun!